Thursday, 4 June 2015

Kay, Harry - Private (410749)

Private Harry Kay

Labour Corps,Died 13th April 1918,Age 48Buried at Holden Hall Cemetery, Haslingden.Newspaper Report:TWO IN A FAMILY FALLPte. Harry Kay (48), 9 Back Bank Terrace, Haslingden, was interred with military honours at Haslingden Cemetery on Thursday afternoon. Pikelaw Hospital furnishing a firing party, and the Rev. W.T. Evans officiating. He was formerly a weaver at Carr and Parker's mill which stopped for the funeral. He had been in the Army nearly three and a half years. Whilst on active service he sustained some shell injury.He had been in hospital in England four or five months, and the cause of death was bronchitis and nouritis. He was connected with King Street Wesleyan Chapel. Deceased's wife died last June. A daughter is the wife of Pte. Harry Barrett. Deceased was stepfather to Pte. James Harrison (31) 13 Spring Lane, who was killed in action a week ago last Sunday, had been in the Army since September, 1914, up to when he was a weaver at Carr and Parker's and who leaves a widow and two children.Newspaper Memorials:In loving memory of Private Harry Kay, who died in hospital, April 15th 1918."Though he's gone he's not forgotten,'Tis sweet to breathe his name;In life we loved him dearly,In death we do the same."From his loving Daughter Eliza, 9 Back Bank Terrace, Haslingden."Not now, but in the coming years,It may be in the Better lane,We'll read the meaning of our tears,And then, ah then, we'll understand."From Pte. H. Barritt

This is a very special blog, which hopefully is a comprehensive, and permanent record of all our past brave soldiers from Haslingden and Helmshore who lost their lives in either World War One or World War Two.

The research and compilation has been carried out by Jacqueline Ramsbottom of Haslingden Roots in conjunction with Bryan Yorke of Haslingden Old and New who has been responsible for the typing from newspaper transcript of WW1 soldiers and the site construction and day to day administration of the site etc.

If you have information or photos you would like added to the blog then contact Jackie at: Jax1956@googlemail.com

Or if you have any queries with regards to text errors, or site construction etc., then please contact Bryan at: bryan.yorke@sky.com

We are indebted to the late William Turner who did so much research on these brave soldiers and we are so grateful that his previous work has been allowed to be incorporated within this more recent work.

Also we would like to thank Jennifer Shilliday for kindly allowing us to use her superb photo of the Haslingden Memorial for our main header and also as a sub header on most of the soldiers individual reports.

We also wish to acknowledge that the Census Certificates printed below each soldier are "Crown Copyright".

We also thank and acknowledge the photos and inscriptions of the war memorials which wherever possible have been included at the end of each soldier's blog, and some of these photos are copyrighted to the "Commonwealth War Graves Commission". (We are hoping to add these photos in due course)

A lot of the research which has included Notes and also Memorials has been gained from transcripts or notices taken from the original Haslingden Guardian newspaper from that period.

My apologies for typo errors which will have occurred throughout the listings and are being corrected when found during regular audits.

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